Johann Sebastian Bach's music has been played on everything from banjos to marimbas. There's something so elemental and sturdy about his melodies — whether solo or intertwined with rigorous ...

When pop stars Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel and Ry Cooder collaborated with African musicians in the 1980s and '90s, they were stepping out of the familiar to embrace sounds once heard as foreign and ...

I spend most of my time resembling a cross between a poodle and a stick of candyfloss. It's not by choice; because of my mixed African/English heritage, I have very finely textured, but very tightly ...

It happened in a series of four-day runs, twice on the weekend with all shows packed to the rafters and ending in ovations. African Twist was more than just a play happening at the Alliance Française ...